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It is possible , that the object may be merely to facilitate the recollection of any given facts or observations by artificial arrangement ; and the composition will be a poem , merely because it is distinguished from prose by metre ...
It is possible , that the object may be merely to facilitate the recollection of any given facts or observations by artificial arrangement ; and the composition will be a poem , merely because it is distinguished from prose by metre ...
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... that object may have been in a high degree attained , as in novels and roman . > ces . Would then the mere superaddition of . metre 7.
... that object may have been in a high degree attained , as in novels and roman . > ces . Would then the mere superaddition of . metre 7.
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Would then the mere superaddition of . metre , with or without rhyme , entitle these to , the name of poems ? The answer is , that nothing can permanently please , which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so , and not ...
Would then the mere superaddition of . metre , with or without rhyme , entitle these to , the name of poems ? The answer is , that nothing can permanently please , which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so , and not ...
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The writings of Plato , and Bishop TAYLOR , and the Theoria Sacra of BURNET , furnish undeniable proofs that poetry of the highest kind may exist without metre , and even without the contradistinguishing objects of a poem .
The writings of Plato , and Bishop TAYLOR , and the Theoria Sacra of BURNET , furnish undeniable proofs that poetry of the highest kind may exist without metre , and even without the contradistinguishing objects of a poem .
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In his diction and metre , on the other hand , he is comparatively careless . The measure is either constructed on no previous system , and acknowledges no justifying principle but that of the writer's convenience ; or else some ...
In his diction and metre , on the other hand , he is comparatively careless . The measure is either constructed on no previous system , and acknowledges no justifying principle but that of the writer's convenience ; or else some ...
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| Title | Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 309 pages |
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